Question for Canopus ADVC110 owners

craftech wrote on 4/26/2013, 11:28 AM

Bought one for transfer of VHS and Hi8 video to Vegas 8 for editing a year ago. Just decided to use it now.

I have a question about the dip switches on the bottom. I am getting mixed opinions on the net about them.

The unit came with the following default positions for the switches:
Switch No.
1. Digital-in Reference Synch Mode: OFF (set to stream synch) ON would be Fixed synch.
2. Power-on Input Mode: ON (set to digital) I think this should be set to OFF (analog)
3. Audio Mode: OFF (48Khz/16-bit)
4. Locked Audio Mode: OFF (locked)
5. NTSC Setup Level: ON (7.5 IRE) OFF would be 0 IRE. Not sure about this one
6. Video Format: OFF (NTSC) I am in the US. ON would be (PAL).

So I think Dip Switches 2 and 5 are where I have a question.

1. Dip Switch 2:
If I am capturing VHS and HI8 mostly then I think Dip Switch should be set OFF (Analog) and not the default ON (Digital). I am not sure why the default is Digital anyway. Isn't this device for capturing analog video in digital format?

2. Dip Switch 5: This is my biggest question

The manual says that the default setting for this switch is OFF which for NTSC means 0 IRE. Yet the switch was ON when I opened the box and looked at the device which for NTSC means 7.5 IRE.

But should that switch be set to 0 IRE (OFF) or 7.5 IRE (ON) for NTSC use with analog sources?

Thanks,

John

Comments

Tom Pauncz wrote on 4/26/2013, 12:06 PM

John,
I have the ADVC100, switches 2 & 5 are reversed on this box, but I have them both ON.

The main use I had for the box was external monitoring - F/Wire (Digital IN) and Analog (S-Video) OUT.

I don't think the power ON input mode means much, IMHO, as it can be toggled by the switch on top.

By default this box was set to 0 IRE.

Tom

JJKizak wrote on 4/26/2013, 2:40 PM

You know I played with those switches during capturing and dammed if I can remember what I ended up with. My Sony 8mm deck captured direct to Vegas as I recall.
JJK

farss wrote on 4/26/2013, 3:15 PM

Dip Switch 5 would be Off in Japan where the unit is made and should be On in the USA.

In the USA 7.5% IRE setup was added to anolog video out of concerns about sync issues.
By the time Japan joined in it was found to be unnecesarry and the setup wasn't applied.

Bob.

craftech wrote on 4/26/2013, 3:58 PM

Thanks for the input guys.

Dip switch 5 is probably something I'll have to ply with. 7.5 IRE setup seems logical for USA NTSC, but I have a feeling that the analog video captured to digital will be dark. I'll have to use the scopes to figure out how to maintain digital black at 16 and digital white at 235.

Incidentally Bob the unit is made in China not Japan, but they probably did setup the dip switch for Japan NTSC at 0 IRE as you said.

The VCR I use to play back the VHS tape will output 7.5 IRE, but the Sony Hi8 camera will output at 0 IRE as far as I know so I think I will probably have to change the dip switch setting when I go from importing VHS tapes to Hi8 tapes.

Thanks again for the help.

Regards,

John